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  <h1>Setting local history preferences</h1>
  <p>To indicate the level of local history that should be kept for each resource in the Workbench:</p>
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    <li>Open the <a class="command-link" href=
    'javascript:executeCommand("org.eclipse.ui.window.preferences(preferencePageId=org.eclipse.ui.preferencePages.FileStates)")'>
    <img src="PLUGINS_ROOT/org.eclipse.help/command_link.svg" alt="command link"> <b>General &gt; Workspace &gt; Local
    History</b></a> preference page.</li>
    <li>In the <b>Limit history size</b> field, specify whether you want to limit the local history size using
    following options.</li>
    <li>In the <b>Days to keep files</b> field, type the number of days that you want to keep records for any one
    Workbench resource. For example, if you type 7, then a history of saved states from the last seven days will be
    kept.</li>
    <li>In the <b>Maximum entries per file</b> field, type the number of states to keep for any one Workbench resource.
    Note that when you exceed the number of entries per file, the oldest changes are discarded to make room for the
    newer changes.</li>
    <li>In the <b>Maximum file size (MB)</b> field, type the maximum file size (in MB) of a resource for which a local
    history should be kept. If the size of the resource exceeds the maximum amount of file size allocated, no local
    history is kept for that resource.</li>
    <li>Click <b>OK</b> to set your preferences and close the Local History Preferences page.</li>
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  <h3 class="related">Related concepts</h3><a href="../concepts/concepts-17a.htm">Local history</a><br>
  <a href="../concepts/concepts-12.htm">Resources</a>
  <h3 class="related">Related tasks</h3><a href="tasks-70.htm">Comparing resources with the local history</a><br>
  <a href="tasks-87.htm">Replacing a resource with local history</a><br>
  <a href="tasks-87b.htm">Restoring deleted resources from local history</a>
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